- Jan 17, 2013
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Our season's over. One can, of course, always hope that Benfica will get a couple players sent off on Thursday, but we'd probably wouldn't make it past the quarter finals anyway. With 8 games remaining in PL, I've seen many people state that they want us to end outside the top 6 to avoid EL next season.
Personally I couldn't disagree more. First of all, I want to see Spurs do as well as possible, and 5th is a lot better than 7th, and for Man Utd to reach us we would have to lose games. We are, of course, going to do so, but hoping for a bottom 14 finish means hoping that we lose games, and I just can't do that.
Secondly, EL is a good opportunity to win a trophy. The sceptics will probably say "we won't win it anyway", and bearing our latest efforts in mind, that may be true, but with LVG as our manager, I think we have a very good chance of winning it. LVG would also want as many opportunities as possible to win trophies, and I think EL participation would strengthen our chances of getting him.
Thirdly, and this is a point most people seem to forget, EL participation boosts our UEFA coefficient. We want to play in CL, and to be prepared for CL we need a high UEFA coefficient. I don't want us to go out in the group stage because our seeding is shit and our opponents are too good.
Personally I couldn't disagree more. First of all, I want to see Spurs do as well as possible, and 5th is a lot better than 7th, and for Man Utd to reach us we would have to lose games. We are, of course, going to do so, but hoping for a bottom 14 finish means hoping that we lose games, and I just can't do that.
Secondly, EL is a good opportunity to win a trophy. The sceptics will probably say "we won't win it anyway", and bearing our latest efforts in mind, that may be true, but with LVG as our manager, I think we have a very good chance of winning it. LVG would also want as many opportunities as possible to win trophies, and I think EL participation would strengthen our chances of getting him.
Thirdly, and this is a point most people seem to forget, EL participation boosts our UEFA coefficient. We want to play in CL, and to be prepared for CL we need a high UEFA coefficient. I don't want us to go out in the group stage because our seeding is shit and our opponents are too good.